{"id":1919,"date":"2008-03-27T23:30:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/27\/brightest-gammaray-burst-evah\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T23:30:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T23:30:43","slug":"brightest-gammaray-burst-evah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/brightest-gammaray-burst-evah\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Evah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-82a13509d864464b6197aee6a2590708-gamma.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-82a13509d864464b6197aee6a2590708-gamma.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA astronomers were blown away last week by what was far and away the strongest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed. GRB 080319B, shown here in x-ray [left] and optical\/ultraviolet [right] views captured by the Swift satellite, burned so brightly that its afterglow was briefly visible to the naked eye from its origin 7.5 billion light-years (or half a universe) away. If placed side-by-side with the brightest supernova ever seen, the burst would still outshine it by a factor of 2.5 million, researchers calculated. GRBs typically occur when the explosion of a dying star gets channeled into twin high-speed jets. Astronomers are mystified why this one shined so intensely. The burst may simply have been extra powerful or its very narrow jets may have pointed directly at Earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More photos of this event and other interesting stuff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=E804A769-05C6-434B-DB3CFDA56487FDCF&#038;sc=rss\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronomers were blown away last week by what was far and away the strongest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed. GRB 080319B, shown here in x-ray [left] and optical\/ultraviolet [right] views captured by the Swift satellite, burned so brightly that its afterglow was briefly visible to the naked eye from its origin 7.5 billion light-years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/brightest-gammaray-burst-evah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Evah!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-uX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}